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Kim Barnes is the author of A Country Called Home, winner of a PEN USA Award and shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, and two critically acclaimed memoirs. She lives with her husband, the poet Robert Wrigley, on Moscow Mountain.<b>Barnes animates a magnetizing cast of cosmopolitan characters</b> ... <b>A veritable <i>Mad Men</i> of the desert, with the depth of a Graham Greene novel</b>.
Booklist
A close inspection of how radically a life can be rescaled, and how quickly. <b>With a protagonist like this, Barnes could have set her novel in a single room, and we'd keep reading</b>.
Boston Globe
<b>Drawn with skill and filled with evocative period detail ... [Gin] plumbs the depths of her new world with heart and courage.</b>
Seattle Times
A <b>real page-turner</b> that’s also <b>beautifully written and researched</b>.
Saga
<b>With courage and zest</b>, <b>Kim Barnes's novel takes an intimate look at</b> ... <b>the rarified and harshly beautiful world of eastern Saudi Arabia</b> ... <b>Within these lyrical pages is a story well worth investigating</b>.
San Francisco Chronicle